[] 0 Paid employee
[] 1 Employer
[] 2 Own account worker
[] 3 Unpaid family worker
[] 4 Looking for work/ unemployed
[] 5 Student
[] 6 Homemaker
[] 7 Retired/ Sick/ Too old
[] 8 Other

0 Paid employees: Permanent/casual/temporary/contract/seasonal:
This refers to an employee/worker who worked for a public or private employer and are typically remunerated by wages and salaries but may be paid by commission or piece rates. Paid family workers, shop keepers, gardeners and house maids are also to be included here.

1 Employer:
This refers to a person who operates his or her own economic enterprise or engages independently in a profession or trade, and continuously hires one or more employees. Economic enterprise is defined as one in which at the end of the day one is capable of generating income in cash or kind. It should be emphasized that if one is employing a domestic worker he /she is not an employer since the household is not an economical enterprise. However, a housewife is continuously employing someone to sell e.g. freezits, sweets, airtime, vegetables, etc., to make some profits is considered an employer.

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2 Own account worker:
These operate their own economic enterprise and work for their own consumption or profit. Own account workers can employ other workers without being classified as employers, as long as they do so on a non-continuous basis e.g. to help with the harvest or planting. Whenever, an own account worker continuously employees at least one employee he or she is classified as an employer. Examples of these are communal resettlement, peri-urban farmers, petty traders and carpenters. Both the head of household and spouse are considered communal, resettlement or peri-urban farmers. If another member of the household operates his or her own fields then he or she becomes a standalone farmer.

3 Unpaid family worker/contributing family worker
It refers to those family members of the household who work without pay in an enterprise that is operated by the household but cannot be regarded as partners because their degree of commitment is not at the level comparable to that of the head of establishment.

4 Looking for work/unemployed:
These are persons aged 10 years and above who during the last 12 months were without work, were available for work and were actively seeking work.

5 Student:
A student is a person who attends a regular formal education institution, public or private. He /she should be a full-time or part-time student not usually engaged in an economic enterprise. University student, trainee teacher, apprentices, student nurses are also students.

6 Homemaker:
Homemaker is a person of either sex involved in the household chores in their own household e.g. fetching water, cooking, baby-sitting, etc and who do not work for pay or profit. If the person worked on the household business, s/he should be recorded as self- employed or unpaid family worker. Domestic workers engaged for pay should not be included in this category but under paid employee.

7 Retired person/sick/too old:
(NB: These are three combined categories)

- Retired person: one who reports that for most of the last twelve months he was not engaged in any other activity because he has retired.
- Sick: these are persons who are not engaged in any activity because of sickness.
- Too old: these are persons who reported that they had no activities because of old age.

8 Other (Specify):
This refers to those not referred to in any of the above categories e.g. prisoner.